Comments on: Motherhood Residencyhttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/
The Intersection of Design & MotherhoodMon, 16 Oct 2017 22:12:41 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2By: Annhttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428529
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:07:45 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428529This is very creative and it made me laugh when I read the blackboard. My first son never hit me but he did hit other children his age for a very brief period when he was a toddler. I felt so bad when he did this! Mortified really, especially when one of the objects was a wooden block. OUCH!
]]>By: klaohttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428419
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:04:39 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428419awesome idea! love it! :)
]]>By: Design Momhttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428405
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:03:16 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428405Oops! Just edited. Thanks for the catch, M.
]]>By: Heidihttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428401
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:11:50 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428401This truly inspired me, and I really needed it in the dead of winter! Her open studio video of her baby crying and hitting her with objects while she is creating is honestly why I swore off all creativity after I had two children due to the frustration I felt when I was interrupted while creating and now that I have three I am a lot more flexible and have realized that in order to thrive I need to create and so I am slowly returning to the world of seeing life through the bubble wrap lens of creativity. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.
]]>By: M.Franceshttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428380
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:48:06 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428380Awesome link! I am going to be a stickler, though, and say…please edit the posted link, as Pittsburgh ends with an ‘h’. When it’s left off, it makes me twitch!
]]>By: Sarah Heathttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428371
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:06:43 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428371I love this!
]]>By: Sarahttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428368
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:36:43 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428368Sarah, I know you didn’t mean anything bad by it, but I wouldn’t consider myself lucky if I didn’t have a job outside the home. I love what I do and I consider myself lucky that I get to do it and that I have wonderful care for my children when I am at work.
Yet I wouldn’t say everyone should work, I think the lucky ones are the ones who get to make a choice and so what they want, not be forced by money or society or whatever.
]]>By: Maria Bakerhttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428367
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:31:47 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428367I think this project is very clever. As an artist, I only wish I’d thought of it first. Though as I think about it, I have thought of it, many times, without properly fleshing it out. Good for her. I also appreciate the argument against putting labels onto mothers, such as full time, part time, etc. Can’t we just be Moms? Why are we so incredibly hard on and judgmental of each other?
]]>By: Sarahhttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428365
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:07:04 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428365I think any mom who is actively engaged in their child’s life is a full time mom! Most of us aren’t so lucky to call motherhood our only job, not to say it’s an easy one! As a mom who spends nap-time blogging in my basement, I can totally relate and think this project is wonderful! I especially love the “THE DISTANCE I CAN BE FROM MY SON.”
]]>By: Design Momhttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428354
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:33:32 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428354I feel like I should add: I know what is meant by “full-time mother”, and I’ve spent many years as a “full-time mother”. The term is meant to describe a woman who has decided not seek employment, especially employment outside the home, while she’s rearing her children.

But in my experience, it doesn’t really work like that. The artist in question is both working and parenting. The full-time mothers I know are running the PTA, training for marathons, volunteering at church, developing skills (like photography, and blogging!), and doing all sorts of things that aren’t necessarily parenting. They’re just not getting paid for it, or getting paid less than a true wage. It’s hard to imagine a woman who has no interests or activities outside of parenting her children.

]]>By: Design Momhttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428353
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:27:42 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428353I think that’s such a good point, Christa. I get so frustrated when I see labels about motherhood and parenthood thrown on everything, because they’re polarizing and generally unhelpful.

Tell me, am I a full-time mother because I’m home all day? Or am I a part-time mother because my 5 oldest kids are in school, and little June has a babysitter twice a week? Or am I hardly a mother at all because I have a full-time workload?

Asked cheekily: Exactly how many hours do we need to spend with our kids in a day to be considered a full-time mother?

]]>By: Christa the BabbyMamahttps://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428351
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:07:17 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428351I love the idea, but whenever I see ‘full-time mother’ used like this I get sad and think “Great, yet another person who sees me as a *part-time mother* because I have to work to support my family’ simple lifestyle.” Last I checked, supporting my family, financially or otherwise, is a part of mothering.
]]>By: {plum}https://www.designmom.com/motherhood-residency/#comment-428350
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:52:29 +0000http://designmom.wpengine.com/?p=29058#comment-428350amazing! Thank you so much, Koseli, for sharing this life documentary. What a brilliant idea, I can not wait to follow her journey.